Yahoo Autos Watch Dozens of RC Planes Smash Together in an Aerial Demolition Derby
As a kid, I fantasized about being born 75 years earlier so I could've flown fighters in World War II. Now that I'm an adult, I know I would've been a transport pilot at best—but I still think I would've been alright in a dogfight. And as it turns out, I can test that theory by building a remote-controlled flying Ford Pinto and spearing it into another plane at an airborne demolition derby I just learned of in Ohio.
The event I'm talking about takes place annually at Flite Fest, an RC plane gathering that met last month in Malvern, Ohio. Its website says all skill levels are welcome, and that people can fly everything from the cheapest mishmash of parts that'll take flight to large-scale recreations of historic aircraft. But it's not just a showcase of acrobatics and aerospace oddities; you actually get to watch some of them fight.
